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Graduates of Frontier Nursing University are making incredible strides to address healthcare disparities throughout the United States, particularly in rural and underserved areas. Your donations provide critical support to facilitate the exemplary student learning environment that FNU is known for.

Your donations to FNU open doors of opportunity for our students. Thank you!

Donations shown here are a sampling of gifts provided to FNU during the last fiscal year. While we are unable to list all donations to the University, we remain incredibly grateful to all our donors for your generous and kind support.

If you are interested in making a donation to FNU or providing for the University through your estate, please contact Chief Development Officer Bobbi Silver at bobbi.silver@ frontier.edu.

Breckinridge Capital Advisors generously donated $25,000 for the Breckinridge Capital Advisors Scholarship. Peter Coffin, President of Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Board member, and longtime friend to FNU matched the gift with a $25,000 donation of his own.

The CVS Health Foundation provided $4,000 for student scholarships.

Susan Graham & Jon Kucera donated $250,000, and Elaine Bolle & Lester Levine donated $50,000 to provide seed funding to create a $1 Million endowment to fund Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs.

Siblings Preston Farmer, Martha Copeland, and Ruth Huff donated $29,000 to create the Virgie and Rex Farmer Scholarship Endowment in honor of their parents. They also honored their parents with a plaque on a campus bench.

The Virginia Clark Hagan Charitable Foundation, Inc. donated $50,000 for Dropout Detective and LexiComp clinical drug reference software.

The Berea College Appalachia Fund provided $10,000 for scholarship support of nurses who express a commitment to serve the populations of the Appalachian region upon graduation.

The E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund provided $12,000 for scholarships for students residing in Eastern Kentucky.

Jenny & John Pilarowski gave $3,700 for supplies to establish the Labor Management Skills and Intensive course.

Allan Apter created a $25,000 endowed scholarship in honor of his friend, Regina “Sis” Cohen, a nurse who saved his life.

Dr. Kendra Faucett generously provided on loan to FNU a variety of birth statues from countries across the world. The statues are on display in FNU’s Reflection Center for all to enjoy.

FNU Board Chair Dr. Michael Carter and his wife, Dr. Sarah Carter, donated $9,000 to purchase a baby grand piano that is housed in the President’s House and used for special events. The Harriet H. Nicol Charitable Foundation donated $10,000 for unrestricted program support.

FNU Board Member

William Corley pledged $50,000 for a full tuition and fees scholarship for a student over two years.

Graduates of Frontier Nursing University are making incredible strides to address healthcare disparities throughout the United States, particularly in rural and underserved areas. Your donations provide critical support to facilitate the exemplary student learning environment that FNU is known for.

182 donors generously gave $75,157 to the Kitty Ernst Scholarship Fund in honor of our beloved FNU leader and friend. FNU’s President, Dr. Susan Stone, provided a generous lead gift of $25,000.

Former Courier Patricia Lawrence generously donated $5,000, as well as hosted FNU in her home in the Boston, MA area to share an update and a showing of the film “Angels on Horseback.”

The Margaret Voorhies Haggin Trust donated $30,000 for the purchase of an abdominal simulator, a “Sophie and Her Mum” obstetric trainer, a fetal monitor, and a “MamaNatali” birthing simulator to be sued during Frontier’s Clinical Bounds.

FNU hosted its first-ever Day of Giving on October 26, 2022, and raised $21,275 from 51 donors. Thank you!

The Charles M. and Joan R. Taylor Foundation provided $25,000 for FNU’s faculty and staff fellowship program in honor of Edward Settle Dabney, former Treasurer and Governor of FNS.